Are you worried about lending your iPhone to a young child and it disrupts everything? Here are tips to protect your phone from being damaged.
When you lend your iPhone to your child, you always have a little bit of apprehension. Whether he goes into the settings to adjust everything, whether he buys anything and everything in the App Store, a young child is not always necessarily aware of what he is doing. This is why it may be interesting to protect your iPhone to avoid any accidental manipulation. Here are 10 tips to put into practice to create parental controls.
On iPhone, there are a set of options to enable or disable to prevent your child from having access to certain features. First of all, it is best to activate it, by going to the device settings, Screen time Then Content and privacy. Enable the option.
Block App Store purchases
In this same menu, you can prevent your child from making App Store purchases for in-game content or in-app purchases. We will particularly remember this child who, two years ago, spent nearly €2,500 on the backs of his parents for the benefit of in-app content. It is therefore preferable to activate the settings to prevent you from experiencing this kind of situation.
Still on the menu Content and privacyjoin the tab Installing and purchasing apps.
You can therefore prevent the purchase or download of apps from the App Store or another online app store, require the password for in-app purchases, etc.
Hide an app
For whatever reason, you may not want your child to have access to your camera, the App Store, or any other pre-installed app on your iPhone. For this, there is a very quick option to “hide” certain applications from the home screen and thus prevent the child from having access to them. Even AirDrop, CarPlay or access to Maps or FaceTime can be disabled.
To do this, simply go to the settings of your iPhone, then go to the menu Screen time. In the submenu RestrictionsPress on Content and privacy then on Authorized apps.
Then uncheck the apps you don’t want to appear on your iPhone’s home screen. After a short wait, these will have disappeared, you just need to check them again to see them return.
Prevent access to specific content
As we can never be too careful about what our child can see in terms of series, films or the apps they can play, it is interesting to add a filter to avoid explicit content or content aimed at a mature audience. We stay in the tab Content and privacythen we go to Content Restrictions.
You can thus prevent your child from playing applications for 17 years and over, from watching adult films, etc.
Prevent access to certain websites
Access to certain websites, such as pornographic sites, must be regulated for young children. Fortunately, iOS allows you to automatically filter these sites and, if you want, add additional ones that might fly under the radar.
To do this, in the menu Content and privacygo to Content Restriction then in the tab Web content. Enable the option Limit adult sites. By default, all adult sites are included, but you can exclude or accept others with the two fields below.
Siri can also sometimes display content that is not suitable for a child. To protect you from any risk of unwanted display, in the menu Content Restrictiongo to the submenu Siri and change to Not to allow the options Web content search And Explicit language.
Since you never know what stranger your child might encounter while playing online, it’s also best to restrict Game Center functionality when opening a game on iPhone.
In the menu Content Restrictionscroll down to the bottom to find the options related to Game Center.
Here’s what they change:
- Multiplayer games : prevent playing multiplayer games with everyone, allow playing with friends only, or allow playing with everyone
- Adding Friends : prevent adding friends in Game Center
- Get in touch with your friends : Prevent user’s Game Center friends list from being shared with third-party games
- Screen Recording : prevent screenshots and sound recording
- Nearby Multiplayere : Prevent activation of the Nearby setting
- Private messaging : prevent voice chat or sending or receiving personalized messages with game or friend invitations
- Profile Privacy Changes : Prevent changing profile privacy settings
- Avatar and nickname changes : prevent changing avatars and nicknames in Game Center
If you return to the previous screen, either Content and privacy, you will find at the bottom all the settings related to User Confidentiality. This allows you to allow a social media app to request permission to use the camera.
Here’s what the settings change:
- Location service : Lock settings that allow apps and websites to use location
- Contacts : prevent apps from accessing contacts
- Calendars : prevent apps from accessing the calendar
- Reminders : prevent apps from accessing reminders
- Pictures : prevent apps from requesting access to photos
- Share my location : Lock location sharing settings in Messages and Find My Friends
- Bluetooth sharing : Prevent devices and apps from sharing data via Bluetooth
- Microphone : prevent apps from requesting access to the microphone
- Speech Recognition : prevent apps from accessing voice recognition or Dictation
- Apple advertising : prevent changes to advertising settings
- Allow tracking requests : prevent tracking by apps to which you have denied access
- Media and Apple Music : Prevent apps from accessing your photos, videos, and music library
You can also, in the menu Content and privacyprevent your child from changing the device password, changing the default account, etc. Scroll down to do this until Allow changes.
Here are the different options and what they change:
- Code changes : prevent changes to your code
- Account changes : Prevent account changes in Accounts & Passwords
- Cellular plan changes : Prevent changes to cellular data settings
- Decrease loud sounds : Prevent changing volume settings for safe listening
- Concentration mode Driving : prevent changes to the Driving concentration mode
- TV provider : prevent changes to TV provider settings
- Background app activity : Prevent background app refresh settings from being changed
When you lend your phone to someone else or a child, you don’t necessarily want them to leave the Music application, for example, to go to Photos. To avoid this, there is the Guided Access function. We talk about it in more detail in this dedicated article.
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